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40 Percent of World of Warcraft Players Addicted
Heartless Gamer writes "MMORPGs and game addiction. If you're suffering from dry eyes, headaches, back aches, erratic sleep patterns, it may be more than just your average hangover: according to Dr. Maressa Orzack, you could be suffering from video and computer game addiction. A clinical psychologist, Orzack is founder and coordinator of Computer Addiction Services at McLean Hospital in Newton, Mass., and is also an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. Computer Addiction Services is one of the few outpatient clinics in the U.S. that provides specific treatment for game addiction." but I'm feelings much better now.
Christ people. One of these stories every other week is getting old.
Since she probably isn't getting any dick at home anymore. Poor girl. I love to bend her over and fuck her doggie style while holding on to her tits. OH YEAH. Before I blew my load I would probably pull out, shove my cock way up her ass then donkey punch her. Nothing like the sensation of blowing you load way up in a womens ass...
Which means that she gets a least silly clown award. A clinical psychologist. That's impressive. A psychology degree—everyone knows how hard those are to get—and some graduate work to add the "clinical" tag. It's certainly not the sort of field that attracts incompetents. There's not a biology professor in the world who moans about the morons who show up for his class when it's listed in the catalogue as a psych prereq.
Having worked in the mental health industry for a bit, I can tell you that the whole psychiatric industry is only at the edges of knowing it is talking about. Don't believe me? Pin a psychiatrist (those are the ones with the actual M.D., unlike psychologists) down on the term "chemical imbalance" some time. "Chemical imbalance" is a term they use for everything, and is not actually a diagnostic term—it's a theoretical term—there is no test for "chemical imbalance." All they know (from autopsies mainly) is that certain brain chemicals are associated with pleasure and depression, and that happy and depressed people have got a lot of receptors for them. The more complicated explanations you have heard tend to be heavy on the theory and light on the evidence.
They pretend that they are somehow on the same footing as a doctor treating physical conditions. They pretend that their drugs cure conditions. In fact, all they have is a vague understanding of how the brain works and a bunch of drugs are only slightly removed from happy pills. If asked they will launch long explanations on how these drugs are extremely targeted and completely unlike the drugs of 10 years ago—which they've been been saying since lithium—despite having only vague theories about what's being targeted and how that works.
I got in fistfights with my dad for far less than what your recomending. Opression isnt the way to solve problems. You should not have kids they will kill you.
I'll just use my special getting high powers one more time...
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